Evolution of the Thames estuary during MIS 9: Insights from the Shoeburyness area, Essex

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-418

  Roe, Helen M ^a   Penkman, Kirsty E H ^b   Preece, Richard C ^c   Briant, Rebecca M ^d   Wenban Smith, Francis F ^e  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hoxnian Interglacial; Late Middle Pleistocene; MIS 11; MIS 9; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; AMINO ACID; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; HOXNIAN; INCISED VALLEY; INTERGLACIAL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TERRACE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; SHOEBURYNESS; THAMES ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BITHYNIA; BIVALVIA; CORBICULA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 79958769438     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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